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  • Is whistle-blowing now mandatory? The impact of mandatory reporting law on trust relationships in healthcare

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    Hewitt, J
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    Hewitt, Jayne E.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    Trust is vital for promoting positive health care relationships aimed at achieving positive patient outcomes. Patients, as well as the broader society, trust that health care practitioners who have been granted authority by the state to provide safe and beneficial healthcare are competent to do so. Recent instances where patients have been harmed as the result of treatment that fell below the accepted standard of competence have negatively impacted on trust. As the state has a responsibility to protect the public from this type of harm, legislation that mandates reporting of certain instances where the behaviour of health ...
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    Trust is vital for promoting positive health care relationships aimed at achieving positive patient outcomes. Patients, as well as the broader society, trust that health care practitioners who have been granted authority by the state to provide safe and beneficial healthcare are competent to do so. Recent instances where patients have been harmed as the result of treatment that fell below the accepted standard of competence have negatively impacted on trust. As the state has a responsibility to protect the public from this type of harm, legislation that mandates reporting of certain instances where the behaviour of health care professionals has fallen below the acceptable standard has been introduced. While this may have been designed to restore public trust, this article argues that it has the potential to diminish trust on the basis that mandatory reporting may be equivalent to whistleblowing
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Law and Medicine
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.thomsonreuters.com.au/catalogue/ProductDetails.asp?ID=965
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Thomson Legal & Regulatory Limited. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Law and legal studies
    Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified
    Philosophy and religious studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/59855
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    • Journal articles

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